Monkey Muffins

My daughter turned two last Tuesday…I can’t even believe it! Time really does fly when you have kids! Avrie (my little girl) currently has two favorite loves in life.

1. Buzz Lightyear
2. “Moe” her sock monkey

We decided to theme her party around “Moe” and she LOVED it! We kicked off the day by going to the zoo and came home for some “monkey” themed foods. The next few days will be the recipes from this fun party!The first “Monkey” recipe is adapted from one I bookmarked weeks ago from the lovely Pioneer Woman! It looked extremely easy and fast to throw together for a birthday treat! This treat was not only easy, but completely DELICIOUS! We loved every bite and there was not one left at the end of the party!

These monkey muffins are SO easy to make and taste incredible! They are ooey and gooey and DELICIOUS!

Author: Nikki

Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

2 cans Grands Homestyle biscuits (you can use regular bread dough too but I went for the extremely fast and easy route)

butter (about 1 to 1½ sticks)

cinnamon

sugar

1 can sweetened condensed milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Add ½ teaspoon butter to the bottom of each muffin cup.

Sprinkle 1 teaspoon sugar and ¼ teaspoon cinnamon to each muffin cup (no need to mix them together just dump measured amount in separately for even quicker prep time!)

Cut biscuit dough into quarters. Roll each dough quarter into a ball and place three balls into each muffin tin cup containing butter, sugar, and cinnamon.

Top muffins with another ½ teaspoon butter. Sprinkle about ⅓ teaspoon sugar and a dash of cinnamon.

Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden and bubbly.

Remove from oven and immediately drizzle sweetened condensed milk over the top of each one. Allow rolls to cool completely before serving (if you can...I found it pretty hard! They look, smell and taste AMAZING!)

Made these this morning for breakfast and they were amazing! I didn't have sweetened condensed milk on hand so I mixed up a little powdered sugar and milk icing for the tops! thanks so much for the recipe!

I made something like this in high school… a very long time ago, we'll just say that… The only major difference is we used a sourcream/powdered sugar/vanilla icing. Yummy stuff, no matter which whay you make it, though!

Mine didn’t turn out as ooey, gooey good as the picture looks. The granulated sugar didn’t melt completely which was the main problem. And I used the small size can of Pillsbury Buttermilk biscuits so maybe I should have shortened the cooking time? I really like the idea of using the sweetened condensed milk as a quick and easy glaze though! Overall, still good!

made these yesterday they’re delicious! but i did make one change that i found to be a huge difference for the better. i made one batch the way it says to but i felt they weren’t Cinnamon-y enough so i rolled the balls in the cinnamon sugar and coated them all, that way the entire thing had that cinnamon sugar flavor and it wasn’t over bearing at all :). just my advice for anyone that thinks they need a little more sweetness to it.